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GIONEE MARATHON M5: Affordable Smartphone with record-breaking battery life

by admin April 4, 2024

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INTRODUCTION:

Gionee is a consumer electronics giant in China. Headquartered at China, Gionee has the majority of its customer base in China. Only a few years ago did it decide to expand its market to the rest of the world. And amongst many of its foreign targets, India was seen as a potential revenue generator by Gionee. This made the company produce a Made in India series of Gionee launched one of its best mobiles, the Gionee Marathon M5 in India at Bangalore. This smartphone was available for sale exclusively on Flipkart at the time of release. One unique marketing fact about this phone is that it did not promote its phone through any sort of pre-registration openings or flash sale offers. The most talked about feature and undoubtedly the best too was the magnificent 6020 mAh battery capacity it offered. And for the price at which this phone offers this battery specification is surely a reasonable bargain. So, now let us discuss in more depth in this Gionee Marathon M5’s detailed review about its pros and cons.

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LAUNCH PRICE & DATE:

Gionee Marathon M5 was brought into light with its announcement during the month of June 2015. And, finally, it was released in November 2015. At the time of its release, the Price of Gionee Marathon M5 is INR 17,999/-.

DESIGN & DIMENSIONS:

Gionee Marathon M5 comes with an outer casing made of a really durable and sturdy material which has both plastic and metal proportionately. This gives it a very solid look and another point to be noticed is that it has carefully made sure the phone is not too bulky by making it pretty slim and sleek. The smartphone has a thickness of just 8.55 mm. It has a length of 152 mm and a breadth of 76 mm. But the most problematic part of this smartphone is its weight. Because it has really enormous battery it is forced to weigh a good 211g. This can be quite a hindrance for carrying around. It comes in three different colours White, Gold and Black.

DISPLAY:

This Smartphone is made of AMOLED display. It comes in a phablet size of 5.5 inches. It has a capacitive type touch screen which functions smoothly with the multi-touch feature. The resolution of the display is 720 x 1280 pixels. It has an approximate screen to body ratio of 72 %. The display is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3. Also, the touch interface is supported by Amigo 3.1. It has a pixel density of 267 ppi.

OS & PROCESSOR:

This Smartphone uses the Android OS v 5.1 (Lollipop). Also, it is supported by the Amigo 3.1 interface. This interface gives it a quicker and smoother functioning. The chipset used in this Smartphone is the MediaTek MT6735. The processing is carried out by a Quad Core processor functioning at an average speed of 1.3 GHz.

STORAGE SPECS:

This Smartphone comes with a 32 GB internal storage capacity. The storage can be extended with the aid of a microSD card up to 128 GB. For any average user, the internal storage that this smartphone offers is more than enough. But for the extremely heavy user, it still provides an option to expand its storage. It also comes with a pretty good RAM memory of around 3 GB. So, it is an ideal phone for all gamers out there.

BATTERY CAPACITY:

The most highlighting feature of this phone is its extraordinary battery life. This Smartphone comes with a 6020 mAh battery capacity. This not – removable Li – Po battery is the best amongst all Smartphone batteries currently. This battery provides a stand by time of up to 684 h while on 2G mode and up to 557 h on 3G mode. Its talk time extends up to a maximum of 62 h while on 2G and up to 28 h on 3G. In layman terms, this phone is predicted to last up to 4 days at a stretch.

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MULTIMEDIA:

Camera: This Smartphone has a back camera with 13MP clarity and a front camera of around 5 MP clarity. The back camera is enhanced by technical features like an aperture of f/2.0 and an LED flash. Other supportive features are Geo-tagging, smile detection, HDR, autofocus and panorama.

Audio: It supports various ringtone and audio formats like MP3, WAV, Vibration and MIDI. It comes with below average speakers. It comes with a fully compatible FM radio option too.

Video: The back camera records good quality videos at a resolution of 1080p. These videos are captured at 30 fps. The various video formats supported are MP4, H.263 and H.264.

CONNECTIVITY:

This phone comes with compatibility for two sim cards. Both the sim cards are of the micro sim type. One of them has both GSM and CDMA connectivity feature. While the other sim works only on GSM network. Both the sims are compatible with 3G, 4G and also 4G in India (band 40). It also other standard wireless connectivity features like the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. It operates on Bluetooth v4.0.

QUICK OVERVIEW:

Score: Gionee Marathon M5 has earned a feature score of 86 on Pricejugaad.com. This is a pretty good score and easily one of the better phones in this price range.

Features: The major advantages of this Smartphone are amazing battery life, good RAM memory and reasonable built. The disadvantages though are its weight, low display quality.

April 4, 2024 0 comment

Gadgets News

Gionee Looks to Bounce Back in India With Regular, Timely Launches

by Loknath Das December 1, 2017

written by Loknath Das

“In the short term, we are targeting to be in the top five players in the India market, and in the long term, we are targeting the top three,” David Chang, Global Sales Director at Gionee, tells Gadgets 360 minutes before the company unveiled its portfolio of FullView smartphones at the Winter 2017 launch event in Shenzhen, China on Sunday.

When pressed to put more specific time frames to those targets, Chang, who recently replaced long-term Gionee India Managing Director Arvind R Vohra as the head of the India operations, says that the short term deadline is March 2018, while the company aims to achieve its long term goal by September 2018.

Those are ambitious targets for a company that’s been struggling to cope with the onslaught of its fellow Chinese brands. Gionee was the amongst the first Chinese manufacturer to makes it way to the Indian market, and it managed to carve a decent space for itself thanks largely to the strength of the offline distribution and retail network that it built up pretty quickly. At its peak, the company reached 5 percent marketshare in Q4 2016 when it was ranked the seventh biggest smartphone manufacturer by shipments, according to Counterpoint Research. By the last quarter (Q3 2017), however, the company’s marketshare had shrunk down to 2 percent.

“Gionee showcases a good product portfolio by focusing on two key specifications, the front facing camera for selfie lovers and a larger battery for power users,” Counterpoint’s Shobhit Srivastava said. “It faces tough competition from its Chinese counterparts as they spend heavily on marketing their products with endorsements and advertisements.”

The success of the likes of Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo has been there for everyone to see and we asked Chang if Gionee – which has largely stuck to the offline-first strategy even as a large chunk of the smartphone market has moved online – can learn any lessons from its counterparts, but he largely tip-toes around the subject. He describes the trio as “respected” Chinese companies that are doing “good” in the India market, adding that Gionee would also like to succeed in the “very high potential market” that is India.

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Chang says the company aims to do that by letting the products speak for themselves. “Going forward we aim to bring our full product portfolio to India, covering the high-end, the mid-range, and the low-end, but our focus will be on the mid-range,” Chang says, speaking with the help of a translator. “Our brand proposition so far has been about super-selfies and super-battery [life], and moving forward, we will continue with that. Most importantly, though, we will bring our latest and most advanced products to India the same time as China and other global markets.”

We’ve seen Gionee walk that talk already, having launched the Gionee M7 Power – one of the eight FullView devices that the company showcased at the Shenzhen event on Sunday – in India earlier this month. Priced at Rs. 16,999 and with a 5000mAh battery, on paper, the phone is in line with the mid-level, selfie- and/ or battery-focussed devices that the company believes are a good fit for the Indian market. Gionee will be hoping the M7 Power can build on the success of the Gionee A1 and the Gionee X1, which, Chang reveals, have been among its best-selling products this year.

“In Q2 2017 Gionee’s A1 took up the third position in smartphone shipments in the fastest growing retail price segment of Rs. 15,000 to Rs. 20,000,” Counterpoint’s Srivastava confirms.

The new Gionee S11 will also launch in India soon, and you can expect Gionee to be a lot more active in the India market, launching products priced between Rs. 8,000 and Rs. 25,000, Chang reveals. While millennials might be the rage for most brands across the world, Chang says that in India the company’s target customer is a working professional that’s male and 40-years-old, which makes you wonder if it’s a realisation that the company has already lost the younger audience to brands like Xiaomi, Lenovo, and Motorola. Whether that strategy is good enough to help the company meet its ambitious targets, only time will tell.

[“Source-gadgets.ndtv”]

December 1, 2017 0 comment

Tech Update

Gionee M7 Launch Set for September 25, Front Panel Leaked in Live Images

by Loknath Das September 19, 2017

written by Loknath Das

Gionee M7 Launch Set for September 25, Front Panel Leaked in Live Images

HIGHLIGHTS

The handset has been tipped to sport 6-inch display
Gionee M7 is expected to pack 6GB of RAM
The company might launch Gionee M7 Power at the event as well

Earlier this month, we reported that the Gionee M7smartphone has been confirmed to launch soon and now we have finally received the exact date for unveil. Gioneehas announced that the company will launch its M7 smartphone in China on September 25, which also makes us think that the company might also launch the M7 Power handset, which was earlier said to launch on September 28, on the same date. Separately, the live images of the front panel of the M7 have also surfaced on the Internet.

Talking first about the official information provided by the company, the launch poster from Gionee, shared on Chinese microblogging website Weibo, shows the date clearly as September 25. Apart from the date, the poster also shows the outline of the upcoming Gionee smartphone, which suggests that the handset will come with thin bezels on all sides of the display.

Moving to the leaked live images, again shared on Weibo, the alleged front panel of the Gionee M7 smartphone can be seen in the pictures. Just like the outline on launch poster, the live images also suggest that the phone might feature a near bezel-less display, which has become sort of a trend in smartphone industry this year.

According to the previous leaks, the handset is expected to run on Android 7.1 Nougat out of the box and support for a single-SIM slot. The Gionee M7 has been tipped to feature a 6-inch full-HD (1080×2160 pixels) display with 18:9 aspect ratio. The smartphone is expected to be powered by MediaTek Helio P30 SoC paired with 6GB of RAM and ARM-Mali-G71 GPU.

The internal storage capacity of the Gionee M7 has been tipped to be 64GB. In terms of optics, the smartphone is expected to sport a 16-megapixel rear camera with autofocus and flash support. Some of the camera features include 4K video, face detection, HDR photo, and touch focus. At front, there is tipped to be an 8-megapixel front camera.
[“Source-gadgets.ndtv”]

September 19, 2017 0 comment